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Well it's not a 100% so it must be a failure
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Originally posted by bilmore
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Curious - if turnout is, say, 45%, will that signal to you that democracy didn't work there?
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I'm still waiting for answers to the questions about democracy I asked you yesterday that you have been ignoring since then, but in the spirit of amity and bipartisanship, I think that whether or not democracy "works" in Iraq will have very little to do with the level of voter participation. Obviously, the higher the turn-out the better, but the problem right now is not that most Iraqis do not want to vote -- I think they do -- but that a significant minority is well-armed and using violence to thwart the kind of government we'd all like to see there. And one election does not a democracy make.
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